Category: For the Musician

In 6 Months SoundCloud Has Approved Just 100 Premier Partners – via Hypebot

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This morning SoundCloud announced that they’ve signed up 100 Premier Partners and paid them $1 million in advertising revenue since launching 6 months ago.

SoundCloud has been under pressure from the major labels and other rights holders to monetize more of the content available on the platform. Negotiations have been rumored to be difficult, but ongoing; and in August, SoundCloud added advertising with the promise of sharing that revenue with approved Premier Partners.

Six month later, the list of Premier Partners receiving payments – though including some significant creators like Green Label Sound, Sizzlebird, Maker Studios, Epic Rap Battles and comedian Kim Dawson  – totals just 100, all in the U.S.

175 Million Monthly Users = $166,000 Monthly Payments

Payments to these Premier Partners total $1 million since August, according to SoundCloud. That’s an average of just $10,000 per partner. Meaning that SoundCloud has $166,000 a month in payments from a service that as of December 2014 attracts more than 175 million unique users a month listening to free content from creators who upload 12 hours of audio every minute.

SoundCloud, which was founded in 2008, has said that they will expand the Premier Partner program outside of the U.S. and to more creators; but have decline to say when.

via In 6 Months SoundCloud Has Approved Just 100 Premier Partners, Payments Total $1 Million – hypebot.

Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music? – hypebot

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Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music? – hypebot.

That’s been my guess for A LONG time. A LOT of bad music, empty of innovation and creative spark, filled with studio enhancement tricks to make talentless singers sound adequate, being shoved down our throats by the major labels, who then turn around and blame the bands and their fans for the piracy that is OBVIOUSLY killing music sales…

How about this…Indie Artists are producing and publishing volumes of great music everyday, and people are spending their consumer dollars ELSEWHERE. Yes, that’s right Sony, people are choosing to buy REAL MUSIC directly from REAL MUSICIANS and artist friendly music services, and it’s cutting into your sales and profits.

Like they say on Shark Tank…if you’re selling a crappy product, your sales are going to suck. OK, they don’t actually say that, but tell me it isn’t true?

Maybe if the record labels stop exploiting artists and fans, and start finding new, innovative, and inspired acts that are creating new and imaginative art, they can get back on track. Or, they can keep doing what they’re doing…exploiting crap for profit while shunning any semblance of true inspiration, and carving thier niche in history with the dinosaurs and 8 track tape decks in the car.

Anyhoo, check out the article that I sorta read before going off on this rant. Are Low Music Sales Simply Due To Bad Music?

11 Ways To Be A Happier Musician Person

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11 Ways To Be A Happier Musician Person | Music Think Tank

The road to success is long, brutal, and relentless – it’s not for the faint of heary or for the negative nancies of the world. It is for the go-getters, the hard workers, the over-achievers – the musicians who never give up. Nothing worth having comes easy, but the journey from start to finish can be drastically altered by one word alone: Attitude. 

…Being an artist can be a hard life, but it doesn’t have to be. If you are mindful of what’s going on with you and the world around you…

Source: http://www.musicthinktank.com/blog/11-ways-to-be-a-happier-musician-person.html

Indie Brew Radio – Streaming Live NOW

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